University Medical Departments are being used covertly to solicit biased Clinical Trial data in favor of new vaccine/drug products through the pipeline; with substantial financial donations from Vaccine manufacturing giants (ie. Merck, GSK); including millions of dollars worth of free medical equipment. This systemic problem of conflict-of-interest, throughout the Medical Industry, is thus nurtured long before these medical students ever reach the professional field. The Health-Sciences Dep’t at Simon Fraser University (SFU), Vancouver, British Columbia, recently received a donation of 1.4 million dollars worth of lab equipment from Vaccine manufacturing giant Merck – producers of the the Gardasil Vaccine. This is the real reason why they tried to deny the Vaccine Resistance Movement access to their campus. All mainstream media outlets conveniently buried this evidence. ‘Simon Fraser University scientists are busy opening boxes full of shiny new toys for their teaching and research programs. This seasonal excitement comes courtesy of a $1.4 million equipment donation from Merck Canada. Boxes containing scientific tools and equipment – from pipettes and balances up to an ABI 3730xl DNA Analyzer, the gold standard in high-throughput automated Sanger DNA sequencing – have arrived at SFU and will be used to support research and teaching in a number of areas that affect human health, including virology, immunology, toxicology, biochemistry and pathology. “SFU’s faculty of health sciences is a pretty new faculty, and it typically takes many years to build up a critical mass of laboratory infrastructure. Merck has really enhanced our ability to do high level research by giving us all of this equipment at once.”’ sfu.ca/pamr/media-releases/2011/1-4-million-merck-gift-sets-holiday-season-in-motion.html Statement from the Dean of FHS (Faculty of Health Sciences) on the Vaccine Resistance Movement Event at SFU Harbour Centre: ‘It has recently come to our attention that the “Vaccine Resistance Movement” (VRM) has rented space in the SFU Harbour Centre building to host their Summit 2013 conference. Downtown SFU space is routinely rented for commercial purposes to community and corporate groups. We are deeply concerned that the public may interpret this as an indication that SFU supports the perspective of the VRM. Nothing could be further from the truth. Renting downtown campus space does not convey in any way that these events are supported or promoted by SFU. Although we believe strongly in free and open debate of public health issues, the Faculty of Health Sciences believes that VRM promotes a dangerous, anti-science message that is a threat to the health of children and communities globally. Vaccines are rigorously tested for efficacy and safety and there is no scientific evidence whatsoever to support the claims of the VRM that vaccines are responsible for autism and other auto-immune conditions. The VRM has based their claim of a link between vaccines and autism on a paper published in 1998 in The Lancet, a prestigious medical journal, by Andrew Wakefield. It later emerged that Wakefield had received funding from litigants against vaccine manufacturers and that Wakefield had not informed colleagues or medical authorities of his conflict of interest. Had this been known, publication in The Lancet would not have taken place. A 2011 article in the British Medical Journal concluded that the data in the Wakefield study had been falsified. An accompanying editorial in the same journal described Wakefield’s work as an “elaborate fraud” which led to lower vaccination rates, putting hundreds of thousands of children at risk and diverting energy and money away from research into the true cause of autism. In contrast, scientific evidence for the effectiveness of large-scale vaccination campaigns is well-established. Full vaccination, from birth to adolescence, of all US children born in a given year, saves an estimated 33,000 lives and prevents an estimated 14 million infections. Lack of complete vaccine coverage increases the risk of disease for the entire population, including those who have been vaccinated. Public reaction to vaccine controversies has contributed to a significant increase in preventable diseases including pertussis (whooping cough), which is currently experiencing its worst outbreak in 70 years as a result of reduced vaccination rates. Pertussis continues to be a major health problem in developing countries, where mass vaccination is not practiced; the World Health Organization estimates it caused 294,000 deaths in 2002. VRM critics have accused the vaccine industry of misrepresenting the safety and effectiveness of vaccines and influencing health policy decisions for financial gain. There is no evidence to support this claim and conversely, many groups profit by promoting the controversiality of vaccines, such as lawyers who receive fees, expert witnesses paid to provide testimony and to speak at conferences, and practitioners of alternative medicine offering ineffective and expensive medications, supplements, and procedures. In summary, the Faculty of Health Sciences at SFU is dismayed and disappointed that the VRM group may have attempted to establish credibility by using SFU name to further promote dangerous misinformation about the efficacy and safety of vaccines. We advise the public not to make any connection between the scientific integrity of SFU and the VRM conference.’ John O’Neil, PhD Professor and Dean sfu.ca/content/dam/sfu/fhs/news-and-events/news/2013-2014/VRM-Deans%20Statement%202013Mar5.pdf VRM: Vaccine Summit Vancouver vaccineresistancemovement.org/?page_id=12145
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